San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-29

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nOn-explOsive Adams q Westlake's kero-
sene and gasoline stoves, patent pump
oil cans and OIL, at lowest prices.
7-l5-tf WAGNER Il CHABoT.
The Band OF Hope Of the Alamo
Baptist church will give an entertain
ment tonight at their church, corner OF
NacOgdoches and Crockett streets.
The crop Of mesquite beans, which
fatten cattle so readily, Is said to be
very good this year. 1t is a crop that
helps greatly during drOuthy years.
Hon. X. Q. Mills and Hon. Jos. ID.
Sayers will speak to the anti-prohiOi-
tiOnists tomorrow night, on houston
street.
The city engineer Is surveying Cam
erOn street, to prepare evidence In the
suit before the district court TO prevent
the city from opening this street.
Hon. Oscar BergstrOm has returned
from Uvalde. where he delivered no an
ti-prOhibitiOn speech at the barbecue
held there yesterday.
COMMITTEES of the city council met
yesterday. The street and bridges com
mittee talked over the lines on jackson
street, but came to no conclusion.
The police have hard time trying
to break up the gang of lOafers who sit
In front of Kalteyer's drug store from
morning until night.
Forty patients OF the Sunset hOspi-
tai are now being taken care OF 10 tins
city by the roads physic ans, Drs. A.
Graves and Braunnsgel.
typhoid and light mslarial fevers,
and some dysentery, are now the pre-
vailing complaints among those OF our
city who call the doctors.
Our merchants and business men
should attend the meeting at the san
Antonio Rifles armOry tonight, and
talk over the interstate drill.
The human heart has Its demands
or cravings for genuine sympathy. 1t
lie no good sign to despise holy nature
with its divine Inspirations. None but
the giddy mock in these things.
The barbecue advertised TO have &C.
Cured yesterday at st. Hedwig, for
some reason did not come to pass, and
the people who went there to eat of the
free bTOiled COW and drink of her milk
were sadly disappointed and are kick
ing"
Yesterday a fire was discovered In
the Maverick bank cellars which was
promptly eXtinguished. Ii seems a
quantity Of old paper and other rubbish
was stored there. and IL is supposed that
il WAS ignted by some Que throwing a
lighted match there.
City Engineer Maury was fined $40
for contempt by the recorder this MORN
ing for not appearing ~ II witness In
the case OF &. Long, charged with viO-
lating the building ordinance bv con-
struCting 3 fence without having the
proper lines given by the city ell
gineer.
Walter Daniels, a minute negro
hoy, was arrested last night by the pO-
lice and charged with being a vagrant
and was fined as such by the recorder
today. He Is thought to be the boy who
has been stealing garden truck, melons.
etc, from Military plaza nucksters.
"A negro boy who is thought to have
snatChed satchel from lady on the
| street, q few days ago. WAS arrested this
morning bv the police. He claims to
have found the purse on the river bank,
near Pecan street, and showed it TO
SOME boys, one of whom told his mother
and she informed the police.
A crowd Of lawyers were discus
sing the prohibition amendment In their
office yesterday morning. when the
fact that the Bible only mentions one
case of man calling for water came up,
| and one Ofthrm exclaimed: Yes. know
that was Lazarus. ia hell" The Others
believed him. and 1t nov renains for the
LIGHT to correct them. II was Dives
the Scriptures mention as having the de-
sire for water in hadcs
Martinez street is getting & bad
name in that quiet old fourth ward. A
well known mechanic. having Il nice
wife and family. prefers 70 visit col
OrPd woman on that street, appearing at
her house in broad day light. and maxi
ing the fact notorious among the neigh.
bOrs.